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POLE LIBRARY 11 nov 91 Ai. .-, 2Ui TALKER ST. COLUMBUS, if c 23722 2nd Class Postage Paid at Tryon, North Carolina 28782 and additional post offices. Postmaster: send address changes to The Tryon Daily Bulletin, P.O. Box 790, Tryon, N.C. 28782 THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER Founded Jan. 31, 1928 by Seth M. Vining (Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955) Jeffrey A. ByuT, Editor and Publisher The Bulletin (USPS 643-360) is published daily except Sat. and Sun. for $35 per year. 106 N. Trade St., P.O. Box 790, Tryon, N.C. 28782 The Tryon Daily Bulletin Phone 859-9151 Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Cerollna 74 Pages Today Vol. 64 - No. 51 The weather Tuesday: high 79, low 51, hum. 50 percent. And by 7 a.m. Tuesday, .31 inches of rain had fallen. Quote for the day. "It will be a great day when the schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale in order to buy another bomber." From The International Women's Move ment for Peace and Freedom. That's one of those quintes sential "peace and love" kind of sayings. I mean, it's certainly true. But somehow it just doesn't sit right. And, of course, it's publishing medium is - t-shirts. As for school funding, the more I think about it, the more I believe we as a society are pretty foolish. We're going to pay one way or another. People who don't want to spend any more money on schools should be asked whether they prefer spending the same money instead on jails, unemployment benefits, drug rehabilitation programs, and expensive secu rity systems for their homes. Hugh Moltzau, who lives off Country Club Road, reports that (Continued On Back Page) TRYON. N. C. 28782 Sales Tax Levied On School Construction It was a nice thought. Polk County Schools Supt. Dr. James F. Causby thought he'd found over $200,000 in savings from a technicality. He told the Polk County Board of Commissioners Mon day that if all construction con tracts for Polk County Schools building programs were paid by the county, the sales tax would be refunded by the state. If, however, the checks were cut by the schools, the tax would be levied. Causby said the schools' con struction management firm, GMK Associates, had pointed out that Burke County was handling its school construction payments to save paying sales tax and had received the state's blessing. So Dr. Causby called around to Burke County and to the N.C. Department of Revenue regional office in Morganton. He was told the same thing. Hooray. Just pay the bills, he told the commissioners, and Polk will receive all its sales taxes in a rebate from the state, since counties do not pay sales taxes. But, before the champagne lost its fizz, the N.C. Depart ment of Revenue officer in Morganton was back on the phone. Hey, remember that conver sation we had yesterday, he told Causby. Well, I thought I'd better check it out and, well, (Continued On Back Page) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17,1991 Gordon Cosby 'Inward', 'Outward' Disciplines Taught By Ecumenical Speaker Gordon Cosby, the Founder and Minister of the ecumenical and non-dcnominational Church of the Saviour in Wash ington, D.C., will be the speaker at the Ecumenical Lectures, sponsored by the Tryon Min isterial Association, on Sunday, April 28, and Monday, April 29. Under Dr. Cosby's leadership, members of the Church of the Saviour commit themselves to "inward" and "outward" disci plines: inward toward a deep relationship with Jesus, and outward in service to others, especially the poor, the home less, those who are on the fringes of the city's life. Tire influence of the Church of the Saviour has literally spread world-wide, through (Continued On Back Page) 20c Per Copy Sheriff Gives Drug Fundraiser Accounting Polk County Sheriff Boyce Carswell said Tuesday that the telephone fundraising drug education program run on his behalf recently raised $6,595. At least, that's the amount before accounting for stopped checks from disgruntled donors. A couple of independent con tractors working for Benefit Shows of Nashville, Tenn, were working in Polk County recently raising money for "Tire Sheriffs Annual Drug Educa tion Program" by calling people on the phone and then sending out collection agents. As they described it, the edu cation program consisted of mailing video cassettes and "drug education manuals" to area churches, schools, and libraries on behalf of sponsor ing donors. However, the Polk County Board of Education had not agreed to use any such materi als, and had not even been con tacted. Several area residents raised questions about the program, and after newspaper reports about the program began appearing, the sheriff said he asked the fundraisers to quit their operation. "They began on a Monday, and I asked them to stop on Friday," Carswell said. "When 1 got to thinking about it, I didn’t think that much of it. There was nothing illegal about it, but it didn't look good for that much (Continued From Page One)
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